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Subject: Re: Make package-recursive problem
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> I have no clue as to what is causing this, but this is probably the
> reason why people use the tinderbox or roll their own system to build
> consistent packages.

I feel like I am though?  I have a dedicated box just for building 
packages.  make package creates a tbz file of all packages, and is 
supposed to be reliable.

> Another approach had even the package dependency inside a Makefile, so
> rebuilding the gettext package would trigger all dependent packages to
> get rebuilt too (I haven't tackled the problem of *reinstalling* them on
> the target hosts, though)

Doesn't this already occur with the default tools in the port system?